Recently, our competitor has raised their minimum licensing from 16 to 72 cores and introduced late renewal penalties. This significantly increases virtualization pricing for small businesses relying on their software (up to 4.5X more) and reduces profitability for channel partners. While these moves may boost their revenue, they lack true value and a customer-centered philosophy.

At Platform9, we approach private cloud management in a unique way. Our platform makes it easy to manage private clouds by combining familiar virtual machine (VM) management with cloud-native Kubernetes. This lets you manage both traditional VMs and containerized applications seamlessly.

To serve small businesses, we’ve launched a community edition of our platform, which is 100% free, fully featured, and without artificial limits like time trials that expire into a paid model.

To ease adoption, we’ve delivered a free VMware migration tool, vJailbreak, that automates the migration of VMware VMs with zero data loss and hassle.

If you’re an enterprise that’s put off by rising licensing fees and late renewal penalties, we want to hear from you:

• Please reach out to our sales team to schedule a walkthrough of Private Cloud Director today.
• Or, deploy your free Community Edition.

If you’re a SI, MSP, or VAR advising on VMware deployment and looking for alternatives, join our Platform9 Partner Program:

• Engage with our Platform9 Partner Program and start building a new chapter of providing value to your customers with a solution that delivers the ease of migration and modern private cloud capabilities.

If you are looking for a seamless migration from VMware to Private Cloud Director:

• Learn more about our free migration tool, vJailbreak, and take it for a test drive.

We look forward to working with you on the path ahead.

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Platform9’s comprehensive private cloud platform offers built-in automation and ease of use with the flexibility to bring your own compute, storage, and network—delivering a public cloud-like experience. Founded by a team of cloud pioneers from VMware, Platform9’s private cloud platform has powered over 20,000 nodes in production across some of the world’s largest enterprises like Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace. With a comprehensive SaaS-based control plane, Always-On Assurance™, and decades of experience, Platform9 helps businesses embrace the future of private cloud with ease and confidence.

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